Emporia, Kansas, USA, 14th May,2014 Some of the five thousand tank cars that Warren Buffet bought for his Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad to transport the oil from the North Dakota Bakken Oil fields pass through Emporia today. This one train was made up of over a hundred cars, and is just one of the average 87 trains that passes though Emporia, Kansas daily. The BNSF Railway is the second-largest freight railroad network in North America, second to the Union Pacific Railroad. Credit: Mark Reinstein

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Emporia, Kansas 5-14-2014 Some of the five thousand tank cars that Warren Buffet bought for his Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad to transport the oil from the North Dakota Bakken Oil fields pass thru Emporia today. This one train was made up of over a hundred cars, and is just one of the average 87 trains that passes though Emporia, Kansas daily. The BNSF Railway is the second-largest freight railroad network in North America, second to the Union Pacific Railroad (its primary competitor for Western freight), and is one of seven North American Class I railroads. It has three transcontinental routes that provide high-speed links between the western and eastern United States. BNSF trains traveled over 169 million miles in 2010, more than any other North American railroad. Credit: Mark Reinstein

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Location: 3rd and Commercial Streets, Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas, USA,
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